The Neutrino Factory and Muon Collider Collaboration (NFMCC)

Information About the Collaboration

• Brief description of the program. FY2005 NFMCC R&D Program
• Form to join the collaboration. Invitation letter and form (PostScript).
• Charter of the collaboration pdf version, MS-doc version updated 9 February 2003.
• Board/committee memberships:
  Executive board, technical board, speakers bureau, simulation board, MCOG, MUTAC.
• Schematics of a: Neutrino Factory; . Muon Collider (Higgs Factory).
• List of collaboration members. Also listed by institution.
• The collaboration logo.
• Mailing list information.

Current Collaboration Information

• Scheduled Muon Collider conferences, workshops, and mini-workshops.
• Particle Physics Prioritization Panel (P5)
  • Final Report
  • High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) Meeting May 29, 2008
    • Agenda
    • Talk by C. Baltay Report of the P5 Subpanel (PDF)
  • FNAL, SLAC and BNL meetings. Link to agendas and presentations.
    • S. Geer, Advance Neutrino Sources, presentation at the SLAC meeting
    • B. Palmer, Muon Colliders, presentation at the BNL meeting
    • M. Tigner, Generic Accelerator R&D needs, presentation at the BNL meeting
• A. Bross' presentation (ppt-12MB) (pdf-2.9MB) at the HEPAP meeting July 13-14, 2007. See complete agenda (pdf) of the meeting.
• DoE Briefing Meeting, March 1st, 2007
• The Muon Collider Task Force website The final MCTF report is here
• Agenda, presentations comments & other material for AARD, HEPAP Subpanel. Final Report, July 11, 2006 (pdf)
• International Design Study of the Neutrino Factory (IDS) (with links to the ISS WEB page). Also, the IDS Accelerator Working Group page.
• ISS machine working group. The final accelerator working group report is here (pdf).
• APS Multidivisional Neutrino Study
• APS Neutrino Study: Neutrino Factory and Beta Beam Experiments and Development Working Group (Study2-A)
• Table of talks and presentations available to the Collaboration
• Budgets and Funding Requests
• MUTAC Information and Reports (1999-2008)
• MC Friday Phone Meetings

Jobs

• NFMCC-Funded Postdoc at BNL
• Research Assistant position in the Mechatronics Systems Group/HTS magnets at Imperial College, London
• Postdoc position at the University of Geneva
• Updated 19 November: Postdoc position, working on the MICE experiment

• Article on the MERIT experiment in Fermilab Today.
• DoE HEPAP: Accelerator R&D Subpanel Charge Letter and Membership list (Public Announcement August 16, 2005). WEB site of Advanced Accelerator Research and Development (AARD), Agenda, Open Mike Session, etc
• The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) has announced MICE to go ahead 21 March 2005.
• Cern Courier article on the October 2003 High Gradient RF workshop.
• CERN Courier article on the MUCOOL Test Area
• The APS Divisions of Particles and Fields and of Nuclear Physics, together with the Divisions of Astrophysics and the Physics of Beams, is sponsoring a year-long Study on the Physics of Neutrinos, beginning in the fall of 2003. First meeting at ANL, Dec. 13-14, 2003. Second meeting at ANL, March 3-4, 2004.
• DoE 20-Year Science Facility Plan (original site http://www.sc.doe.gov/) Facilities for the future of Science. A Twenty-Year Outlook (11/10/03) (PDF 1.2Mb)
• HEP Facilities Committee (original site http://doe-hep.hep.net/HEPFacSub/) High-Energy Physics Facilities Recommended for the DOE Office of Science Twenty-Year Roadmap (March 2003)
• DOE/NSF HEPAP Subpanel on Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) Roadmap for Particle Physics
• HEPAP Subpanel Report - DOE/NSF High-Energy Physics ( original site http://doe-hep.hep.net/hepap_reports.html) Advisory Panel Subpanel on "The Science Ahead, The Way to Discovery" (4.2Mb)
• Proposal to the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory An International Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE)
• Presentations at RAL, February 17, 2003, in support of the MICE proposal.
• Presentation at the HEPAP meeting (pdf) (ppt) by Steve Geer, Washington, Nov. 8, 2002.
• HEPAP Report, January 28, 2002.
• DOE's Division of High Energy Physics home page. In particular, there is a link for the DOE/NSF High Energy Physics Subpanel on Long Range Planning for U.S. High Energy Physics.
• Presentation at the HEPAP meeting by Mike Zisman, FNAL, Mar. 9-10, 2000.
• "Harping on about hadrons," May 2000 CERN Courier on an experiment to study pion production from protons.
• "Making muon rings round neutrino factories," and article in the April 2000 CERN Courier on muon storage rings.
• NSF prospective MRE panel's report, only the part relevant to the collaboration's EOI for R&D.
• Muon Steering Group (MUG) at CERN, coordinating European muon efforts.
• Expression of interest to the NSF for R&D toward a design study of a Neutrino Factory (organized and edited by K. McDonald).
• Other news of interest.

Current Machine R&D Efforts

• The Muon Collider Task Force website
• APS Neutrino Study: Neutrino Factory and Beta Beam Experiments and Development Working Group (Study2-A)
• Emittance exchange and other 6-D cooling work.
• MCC R&D plans, prepared by project manager M. Zisman <mszisman@lbl.gov>. Revised 26 August 2000.
• The MERIT experiment at CERN. Targetry Princeton page; BNL page .
• Emittance exchange, maintained by G. Hanson.
• Targetry proposal to BNL, approved and assigned BNL-E951.

Physics at a Muon Collider/Neutrino Factory

• Cern report: Oscillation Physics with a Neutrino Factory.
• Report of the Neutrino Working Group to the Brookhaven National Laboratory pdf ; LANL hep-ex/0211001 ; html ;
• FNAL Neutrino Factory physics study group, maintained by S. Geer.
• A collection of recent articles on physics opportunities at a Neutrino Factory, compiled by K. McDonald.
• A collection of recent articles on physics opportunities at a Muon Collider, compiled by K. McDonald.

Recent Publications, Documents, and Transparencies

• Beams for European Neutrino Experiments (BENE): Midterm Scientific Report CERN Yellow Report CERN-2006-005;CARE-2006-009-BENE; ECFA/06/242.
• Muon Collaboration Friday Meetings
• Final version of the Status Report (2003)
• Database of technical papers (DocDB). The NFMCC database system has been replaced by DocDB
  Username and password have been kept. Need help? read this first
• MICE Notes. There is also a mailing list for getting notifications of newly posted notes.
• Snowmass 2001 documents:
  • The Program in Muon and Neutrino Physics
  • Response to the M1 working group charge
  • M1 working group summary
• Higgs Factory 2001 Snowmass Report.
• Feasibility study II (2001).
• Fermilab feasibility study of a neutrino source based on a muon storage. The final version of the Fermilab study (2000).
• Talks at the Fermilab Feasibility Study Meeting, 16 Feb 2000.
• CERN Neutrino Factory Working Group Status Report and Work Plan. Also in PDF.
• The status report. Review of Muon Collider R&D (2001).
• Talks at the ICFA/ECFA Workshop on Neutrino Factories Based on Muon Storage Rings, 5-9 July 1999, Lyon, France.
• "Options for Future Colliders at CERN": CERN-SL-98-004. PDF (400K), PostScript (6.4M!!!).
• CERN Neutrino Factory notes.
• Status Report of a High Luminosity Muon Collider, submitted to the Snowmass Workshop, 1996. PostScript, PDF.
• Mu⁺-mu^- Collider: a Feasibility Study, submitted to the Snowmass96 workshop proceedings.
• Muon Collider "transparency set", 2 Aug 1999.
• Older transparencies.

Computer Codes

• ICOOL.
• G4Beamline
• MARS.
• NIME, the NIfty Macro Expander, an ICOOL input preprocessor.

Other Muon Collider/Neutrino Factory Web Pages

• MuCool Test Area
• The Muon Collider Task Force website
• UK Neutrino Factory and World Design Study for a Neutrino Factory
• MICE Cooling Experiment.
• MIPP Particle Production Experiment (Fermilab e907)
• LBL/UC Berkeley muon research.
• CERN Neutrino Factory working group.
• Neutrino factory and muon storage rings at CERN.
• Princeton, maintained by K. McDonald.
• Fermilab, maintained by Steve Geer.
• Personal web pages of collaboration members.
• Joint Accelerator Conferences Website (JACoW). The Proceedings of 44 conferences are now published, including some from the pre-electronic era. (APAC, EPAC, PAC, CYCLOTRONS, DIPAC, FEL, ICALEPCS, ICAP, ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshops, LINAc, RUPAC)

J. Scott Berg <jsberg@bnl.gov>
1 May, 2008.